Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Macleish, Archibald

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

14.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Brecht, Bertolt

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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Voltaire

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

22.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Crisp, Quentin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

32.

Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

33.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

42.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Ostman, Virginia

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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Trapp, June L.

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius